2. Kuala Lumpur International Airport
KL International Airport is surrounded by four main cities of Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam, Seremban and Malacca.
KL International Airport is close to Malaysia's Administration Capital - Putrajaya.
KLIA was voted as the World's Best Airport for two consecutive years, in the 2005 (AETRA awards) and 2006 (ACI-ASQ awards).
The airport is built on 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres - one of the world's largest construction site) of agriculture land at a cost of about $3.5bn and commenced full commercial operations on June 28, 1998.
From the air, the KLIA looks like a futuristic structure hidden in a remote jungle. Encircling the airport is a tropical forest.
KLIA boasts of the world's tallest air-traffic control tower, the biggest columnless hangar, biggest passenger lounge and the capacity for 25 million people a year.
KLIA is the second airport in the world after Munich to have a special chamber to defuse explosives as part of its sophisticated fire-fighting systems.
Image: A man pushing a trolley at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, south of Kuala Lumpur | Photograph: Ahmad Yusni/AFP/Getty Images
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